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WCP1841

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
25 January [1859]
Source of text:
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 ff. 9-12
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 134-135]
  • Darwin, F. (1909). Some letters from Charles Darwin to Alfred Russel Wallace. Christ's College Magazine: 23(70): 214-231 [pp. 220-222]
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Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2404

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Jan 1859
Source of text:
DAR 100: 131–2
Summary:

Relieved by Wallace’s letter.

At work on introductory essay to Flora Tasmaniae.

European plants naturalised in Australia are almost all adapted to invading disturbed ground.

JDH supports Asa Gray against Alphonse de Candolle as foreign member of Royal Society.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP5313

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 January 1859
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 100: 131-2
Summary:

Hooker is “relieved and pleased” by the letters from ARW that Darwin had forwarded regarding ARW’s reaction to the joint reading of their papers at the Linnean Society in 1858. He discusses his progress on his Australian article. [Hooker, J. D. 1859. On The Flora of Australia: Its Origin, Affinities, and Distribution. In: Botany of the Antarctic Expedition. Part 3: Flora of Tasmania, vol. 1. London: Lovell Reeve.] He discusses potential candidates for the Royal Society’s new Foreign Fellow.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

Herschel6489

From:
Michel Chevalier
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[25 January 1859]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.255
Summary:

Is working on a volume on the gold standard.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6437

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Richard Christopher Carrington
Date:
[25 January 1859]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.205 & 23.254
Summary:

On the desirability of one good observatory in India. Thinks Poonah would be the best site. Time not suitable to press for this establishment.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-2405

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
25 Jan [1859]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434)
Summary:

Expresses pleasure and relief at ARW’s response to joint publication of their pieces about natural selection.

Plans for the "abstract" [Origin].

Birds’ nests as evidence of variation of instincts.

Their collection of bees’ combs.

Praises ARW’s article.

Lyell’s and Hooker’s views [of species issue].

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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